agnate
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Rather than writing that one thing is like another, she suggested, pupils might use “commensurate” or “agnate,” which means related through male descent or on the father’s side.
The grand duchy, being hereditary only in the male line, passed to the nearest agnate, the duke of Nassau.
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Assume more or less of a fictitious character, but congenial and agnate with the former.
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Failing an agnate, a member of the gens of the dead man is to inherit.
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Besides, magnetick mines are only agnate to the true earth, not innate: hence the whole globe does not regard them, and magneticks are not borne to them, as is demonstrated by the diagram of eminences.
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